| sethnintendo said: They are trying to push it on the eshop with a main page presence, Club Nintendo coins promotion (80 coins I believe for eshop version and probably at least 60 for retail), and on their main site. They just haven't done any regular TV ads for it. I wouldn't know because I mainly watch Netflix and Hulu. I can tell you that Ubisoft is advertising the hell out of Rayman Legends on Hulu. Shame that really doesn't appear to be helping much for their sales on all systems. |
That's just not enough. Promoting on eShop is nice and all, but trying to sell a game to people who already have the system only gets you so far. This game was made to be marketed to kids, it was made to be advertised on Nickelodeon or Toon Network, or Saturday Mornings. What they've done isn't enough, that's all I'm saying. They need to do everything in their power to promote thier system and it's games, and one of their biggest problems, outside of the massive and unforgivably stupid software drought they allowed to occur, is that they have really dropped the ball on advertising Wii U or it's games, at all. Not in any meaningful way. It's almost as if they realized the drought was going to happen, and started treating the system like a dead console, and that they'd just "re-launch" in the fall. Not a sound strategy, either way.
I still think they can turn it around, and I think many games will go on to sell well. But this game is a ton of fun, it's uniqe, there's nothing else quite like it on any platform, and it deserves a bigger audience. It could get that audience if Nintendo would just make one freaking commercial for it, or at the absolute least, include it in a montage of game footage in a new fall Wii U commercial.
